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...years the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was chiefly made by three people: John Long Severance, its chief patron; Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, its manager, who first convinced Cleveland that it wanted an orchestra; and Con ductor Nikolai Sokoloff who assembled the musicians, trained them from scratch. Peak of the first 15 years came in 1931 when John Severance gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate...
Reelected. Nahum Sokoloff, president of the World Zionist Congress; at Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...Weston, Conn., Nicolai Sokoloff achieved his ambition last week to lead his own New York Orchestra in an "amphitheatre" constructed by rolling and mowing a hillside field on his farm...
Four years ago when Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff bought a farm in Weston, Conn., he thought he had found a perfect place for resting after strenuous winters with the Cleveland Orchestra. Next winter Sokoloff will not be conducting in Cleveland's imposing new Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work...
...Next July and August Conductor Sokoloff will conduct an orchestra of his own on the grounds of his estate in Weston, Conn...